Black Eye for the IOC

I think we need to come up with a few new words for IOC after their shameful display (or lack thereof) during these Games.

I (and others) have blogged about them on numerous sites, and I've been incorrectly credited with coining the term "Fauxlympics."  (For the record, I did not coin this term.)

But they are Fauxlympics and now with the IOC doing ... nothing ... it's the Farcelympics.

Here's a link:  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080820/ap_on_sp_ol/oly_human_rights_2;_ylt=A0wNcxXTjaxI1.EAc3LfjOQA

""The Chinese government's own voluntary pledges to improve human rights, allow public protests and guarantee 'complete freedom to report' made meeting these self-set human rights benchmarks one of the tests for a successful Olympics," Minky Worden of Human Rights Watch said in an e-mail from New York. "That is a test that both Beijing and the IOC have failed." "

You sound surprised.  You shouldn't be.  Here's this one:  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080820/ap_on_re_as/oly_china_protests_7;_ylt=A0wNcxXTjaxI1.EAbXLfjOQA

It's the story about two elderly women (aged 77 and 79) who wanted to protest (and applied to protest) the loss of their homes.  They've been ordered to spend a year in a labour camp.  Just because they wanted to protest the loss of their homes.  They did apply to protest, according to the article.

But that doesn't matter to the Chinese.  ""China is riding roughshod over its promises to allow lawful protests during the games," said Nicholas Bequelin of the New York-based Human Rights Watch."

Really?  Took you this long to figure that one out, eh?

OK....time for a test.  I've been called "sick," "stupid," "just plain wrong," and a few other things that I won't post.  Since I'm these things and I knew that the Chinese wouldn't keep their word, what does that make you?

We're waiting...

Earth to IOC?  Are you there?  Do you care?  Hellooooooo.....